Desperate Night.

Chapter 297 297 Daoqi 2016 (Thanks to the leader Elvin)
Qingchenguan Courtyard.

The Qingchen Temple is so large, with hundreds of disciples, it is naturally impossible for it to have only one base, the Taoist temple. There are also a total of thirty-six other courtyards of different sizes, which serve as warehouses and research bases.

"Yes, you heard it right, it's the research base." Zhengxia, who was in charge of guiding the group in the other courtyard, explained with some dissatisfaction, "We are researching the improvement of the fundamental technique of Condensing Qi into Shadows. And the optimization of the Taoist Guanwu Gong."

At this time, she and Yu Hong were standing in a villa in a small county town near Taizhou, visiting the research projects there.

Through the viewing window, one can see white-haired old Taoists holding scriptures and notebooks, operating various instruments in closed research rooms, testing volunteer disciples, recording data, and calculating something at a rapid speed.

"It looks really impressive." Yu Hong didn't expect that Qingchen Temple was so progressive and admired it sincerely.

"Do you think we bring so much money here just to enjoy ourselves? Another big reason is that the old people who were injured and can't continue to exorcise evil spirits don't have money and can't be properly taken care of. Now that we have enough money, the old people not only get good treatment and their injuries are healed to the greatest extent, but they can also give full play to their experience and summarize and experiment with new technologies, new materials, and new methods that are beneficial to the entire Taoist temple."

When Zhengxia talked about this, she straightened her back and looked proud.

"That makes sense." Yu Hongshen nodded in agreement. Before, he only knew that Qingchen Temple required money for death, but he didn't expect that there was such a deep logic and reason behind it.

"That's exactly why everyone in the temple supports the current abbot to take charge of the situation." Zhengxia sighed.

Seeing Yu Hong's sincere admiration, the resistance in her heart eased a little.

I feel that this person is not as hypocritical as before.

"Let's go. This time it's the master and the others who specifically ordered us to give way to all resources for you. They bought the raw materials at a high price and only then made a furnace of Heart-Changing Pills, with three pills in a furnace. This time they said they would give you one. Tsk tsk." Zhengxia didn't know what to say.

Just from the little bit of gossip she got from her master, she understood that this Junior Brother Dingrou in front of her was definitely extremely talented, otherwise she wouldn't have given him the Heart-Changing Pill that the teachers and seniors fought so hard for every year.

"Heart-changing pill?" Yu Hong asked in confusion, "What is the effect of this pill?"

"It can forcibly stabilize your Taoism realm and force your Taoism to break through one level. But one person can only take one pill every two years, and it is ineffective for breaking through the ninth level. Because Taoism will degenerate, in many cases only you know how to use this kind of pill." Zhengxia explained.

"." Yu Hong was shocked. This Qingchen Temple looked unremarkable, but there were actually such good things inside! ?

"Shocked, right?" Zhengxia smiled. "You will be surprised by many things in the future. Do you really think that the people in Qingchen Temple are all fools? You gave up your reputation and so many other things just to make money? Money is meaningless except for enjoying it. Only when you find the right use can you achieve the best effect."

“If that’s the case, then there must be quite a few people in the temple who have reached a high level of Taoism? This can be completely achieved with the help of elixirs,” Yu Hong asked.

"Do you think Master and the others don't want to? But they can't, because the materials for refining this pill are extremely rare and difficult to obtain, and the failure rate is also very high. This batch of pills has been accumulated for many years, and we were lucky enough to successfully obtain a few. It is already very remarkable that I can give you one." Zhengxia replied.

"So that's how it is! Senior Sister Zhengxia knows a lot, I'm grateful to learn from her." Yu Hong sincerely raised his palms to salute.

"You don't have to be so polite." Zhengxia blushed after receiving such a formal greeting, and quickly turned her head away. "If your cultivation of Taoism does not improve, it will decline. Don't expect to rely on this pill forever. Because once it degenerates, it will only take a few days, or even faster. In some extreme cases, the Tao heart will collapse in an instant, and the technique will be completely out of control and suffer backlash. That's why my Taoism pursues moderation and peace. Stability is the most important thing."

"I understand this." Yu Hong nodded.

The atmosphere between the two was a little awkward for a while, so they stopped talking.

In the villa, pass through two small courtyards and enter the innermost row of three-story buildings.

A thin old man with a goatee had been waiting at the door for a long time.

After some greetings, the old man took out a black box that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Zhengxia.

Zhengxia opened the box, checked it, and then handed it to Yu Hong.

Yu Hong took the box, and inside was a light golden pill about the size of a marble.

The pills were surrounded by a mess of cotton, straw leaves, etc.

"Cover it and take it directly when needed. Next, I'll take you to see the Taoist weapon." Zhengxia glanced at the black bell on Yu Hong's waist.

"Your Emperor Bell is just a top-notch item among ordinary ones. Master asked me to take you to the Heritage Hall to have a look."

"Inheritance Hall?"

"Well, that is the most important place in my Qingchen Temple. It is where the Taoist instruments used by the previous teachers in the temple are placed. Some of the Taoist instruments have been contaminated with extremely strong auras due to long-term use, and can greatly enhance the Taoist methods and techniques." Zhengxia explained.

"So powerful!?" Yu Hong was surprised.

"Let's go and take you to see it."

Zhengxia held her head high and took Yu Hong out of the villa and headed for the Heritage Hall.

The Heritage Hall is located in the basement of a museum in downtown Taizhou.

On the surface, this is an exhibition museum, but in fact, there is another world underground. Before the two arrived here, Yu Mo and the temple master Yu Hen Taoist had already been waiting here in advance.

On a sunny day, under the shade of a tree, the two stood side by side, looking at the various tourists coming in and out of the museum.

“If Yu Hong passes this test in the Inheritance Hall, he will be one of the only three core disciples of my Qingchen Temple from now on, and his treatment will be on par with Zhengming and Zhengying.” The temple master said seriously, without any of his usual frivolity.

"I think it's okay. But isn't it too early for Hong?" Yu Mo hesitated.

"Not too early, wasn't it at this time that Zhengming and Zhengying met? Moreover, if Yu Hong's Taoism is really at the fifth level, then the sixth level test in the Heritage Hall will be invalid." Yu Hen said seriously. "Use the spiritual power of the ancestors in the heritage instruments to test whether he has bad intentions and whether his aptitude is as strong as he said. This may be our only way."

"We can take him to try to resolve the grudge." Yu Mo suggested.

"At most, we can find out that his cultivation of Taoism and techniques is not weak, but we can't detect what he is thinking. Well, let's not talk about it anymore. If Yu Hong has no bad intentions, then the inheritance hall will be of great benefit to him. If he can obtain one or two inherited Taoist artifacts, he will have a strong self-protection ability when facing the black disaster of resentment in the future." Master Yu Hen said with a smile.

"That's right." Yu Mo nodded.

The two changed the topic and talked about other industries within the temple.

Not long after, a white luxury car slowly stopped at the open gate outside the museum.

The car door opened, Zhengxia took Yu Hong out of the car, greeted the Taoist priest at the door, and then strode towards this side.

"Zhengxia|Dingrou, greetings to the master, the abbot." The two of them bowed to Yu Mo Yu Hen together.

"Get up. This time, the qualification for the inheritance hall is not only a test for Dingrou, but also a reward for you. All the disciples in the formal Dao seed class have been here, but only Zhengming and Zhengying have been recognized by the inheritance Taoist artifacts and took away a inheritance Taoist artifact here. So, if you can also take one, it will be of great help to your future development." Master Yu Hen said with a kind smile.

"Disciple understands." Yu Hong had already listened to Zhengxia's popular science lectures on the way here.

I am also very curious about this inheritance hall.

“Speaking of which, this inheritance hall was abandoned for a long time and no one discovered its secret. Later, when the temple had money, they renovated the memorial tablets for the ancestors, and then they discovered something else. This can be regarded as a great gift left by the ancestors for our descendants, but we were too poor before,” the temple master sighed, and led a few people along a small path in the museum to an internal elevator in the corner.

The elevator pressed the third floor below ground and began to move downward rapidly.

"People outside say that I, Yu Hen, am too greedy for money. But without money, the inherited instruments won't be able to shine, and the inheritance won't be able to arrange the automatic transfer ceremony. Without adequate maintenance, many inherited instruments will even be damaged over time. Is this the price that must be paid to maintain tradition? No, others allow it, but I, Yu Hen, disagree!"

The master of the temple became excited and moved by himself.

"After I succeeded the temple master, I worked hard to improve the temple's economy, thinking hard and devoting all my energy to it."

What follows is a long string of nonsense boasting about his own achievements.

Yu Hong appeared respectful on the surface, but his ears filtered out this part.

Ding.

Elevator arrives.

He followed the two division commanders out the door, which led to a fan-shaped gray stone hall.

Facing them was a stone hall with three doors. The doors were circular and made in the shape of a Tai Chi diagram with words engraved on them.

They are: Lingxu, Jinbie, and Dingshen.

"Well, this is the inheritance hall. The three doors are for escape, defense, and attack. You can choose one." The master of the temple simply translated and pointed to the three doors.

"Brother, can't you be more polite?" Yu Mo couldn't help but complain.

"But this is exactly what it is. I'm just afraid that Dingrou won't understand it." Yu Hen argued confidently, not admitting at all that he was uneducated.

Yu Hong glanced at Zhengxia who was trying hard to suppress her smile, took a step forward, and sensed the different auras of the three doors inside.

In fact, he didn't think that this inherited Taoist weapon could give him much help. With his own strength, he had trained to his current powerful physique, so whether it was a Taoist weapon or not, it would not be of much use.

"Dingrou, do you think that a Taoist artifact can be of much help? Everything depends on your own cultivation. You are a super genius, so you should have such thoughts, right?" Taoist Yumo behind him accurately grasped his thoughts and spoke with a smile.

"Uh," Yu Hong's expression straightened, "I am indeed a little arrogant, sorry Master."

"It's not arrogance. Every genius has this thought before entering here. You, Zhengming and Zhengying are the same." Yu Mo smiled and continued. "But that's because you don't know how powerful the inherited Taoist tools are. In essence, the Taoist tools here are the ones that our ancestors originally created with many lost materials, similar to the ones that store spiritual power."

"Storage? Spiritual meaning?" Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, "Master, what is this spiritual meaning?"

(End of this chapter)